The Rotary UN Day on November 9th was very successful
with 800 Rotarians attending. Among them were President of Rotary International
Bhichai Rattakul, RI President Elect Jonathan Majiyagbe, Past RI President
2000-2001 Frank Devlyn and 15 of the 19 Directors of Rotary International.

I asked RI President Bhichai what artist had designed the
beautiful symbol of his theme.

He told me that it was his idea to have a symbol showing plants
growing with two seeds falling. He told this idea to an artist in Evanston, who
designed the symbol.

President Bhichai gave a very interesting speech at
the meeting about how 49 Rotarians participated in the formation of the United
Nations. I asked him for a copy of the speech because it covers both Rotary and
United Nations history. He gave me the original and asked me to make a copy and
return the original to him. You can now see a copy of this manuscript on the
Rotary History website (where I am Vice Chairman) at http://rotaryhistory.org/history/un/2002speech.htm.
You can also read the text of President Bhichai’s
speech on the New York Rotary website at www.nyrotary.org/ri_pres_bhichai/bhichai_rotary_un_speech.html.

Past RI President Frank Devlyn told me on Rotary’s UN Day that he
is going to visit our legendary club at our next meeting on November 12th. He will speak to us
about his favorite project Avoidable Blindness. You can read more about it on
the Internet atwww.rotarytaskforces.org/avoidable_blindness/.
You can also find out about Frank Devlyn’s book “Frank Talk” at www.frankdevlyn.org/franktalk.htm.

The speaker
at our next meeting is Dr. Joseph Skelly, who is the author of
several books. The title of his speech is On Democracy and Terrorism. You can read more about it
in the latest Bulletin on our website at www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/bulletin111202.pdf.

Atila
Macun has written our latest Reporter of the Week (in the Bulletin).
Thank you Atila, he has been a member since 2001 and his classification is
Banking International - Turkey.

I would like to wish happy birthday to our Director
Camilo Uy on November 15th. Camilo is also a Past Trustee.

There is a message in the Bulletin from our
President Elect Greg Lynch in the Members Column about Rotary Leadership
Institute seminars with the headline CALLING ALL FUTURE
LEADERS.

Our International Division has its next breakfast meeting on
Wednesday November 20th at 8:30 am. You can read more about it on
our website at

David Del Monte’s group "Rotary After
Hours" has its next meeting on November 20th at Maye
Musk's home 21 East 22nd Street, #10H. Please RSVP to David at ddelmo1@cs.com so he can provide beverages and tidbits for those that
attend.

Don’t forget to reserve your table for our next meeting. You can
do so via e-mail to our office at ny.rotary@verizon.net, or call Andreas or Ana at
212-633-1311. You can also fax in
the RSVP form, which you can download at http://www.nyrotary.org/Bulletin/rsvp111202.pdf.
Our fax number is 212-633-1954. Princeton Club’s
culinary staff will serve Salmon at our next meeting.

I recommend that you
visit our New York Rotary website every week at www.NYRotary.org.

I want to thank our Executive Director Andreas
Runggatscher and his Executive Assistant Ana Rivas for working so hard every
week creating and mailing the Weekly Bulletin. In addition to mailing it out to
our members, they also send me the electronic Bulletin so I can upload it on
our website. They are also working very hard with the administration of the World
Trade Center - Disaster Relief Fund.

In order to read the
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Reader (Version 5.0). If you don't have Acrobat Reader 5.0, you can download it
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You need
Windows Media Player to listen to Rotary Radio. Windows Media Player is
included with Windows Millennium and Windows XP. If you use Windows 95 or
Windows 98, you can download Windows Media Player for free from Microsoft.